Best TV Pilots vs. DOA Pilots

Best TV Pilots vs. DOA Pilots

Salon picks the ten greatest TV pilots (limited to American dramas), in honor of the “underappreciated form,” which they believe to be “more difficult in many ways than a regular episode of a series” but that feel “less like homework than a little movie.”

The Daily Beast in turn highlights ten of the most quickly dropped DOA pilots–“mercy killings” (think Fox’s just-cancelled Lone Star). The criteria for this list? Shows that sucked so bad that their networks had to move on faster than from a bad one night stand. TDB has clips and descriptions for these shows that the networks would just as soon forget.

Comments

William
May 21, 2016 8:03 pm

Interesting that all of the DOA series are from the 2000s. Is that a reflection of the quality of programs being offered today, or just a lack of network fortitude these days with giving a show a fighting chance?